I read jks1052’s post and must agree and have agreed for a long time that the fact the Eve is portrayed as the singular reason that they were kicked out of paridise is both misogynistic, but wish to make the argument that it is also hypocritical. Christian doctrine has been for a long time focused… Read more Reflection 11/10
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Reflection 11/8
I find the post by alliegillis very thoughful, personaly I believe that they are right in speculating about how people have thought about the power and the way they thought in the past. While I don’t have a definate answer I would like to ruminate on the thought. A lot of Miltons work focuses on… Read more Reflection 11/8
Question 11/10: Cosmology of Miltons Bible Part 2
Like in my last post I wish to pose a question about the merging of the Christian Cosmology with the widely popular greek mythological aspects as shown in this line. The Womb of nature and perhaps her Grave,Of neither Sea, nor Shore, nor Air, nor Fire,But all these in thir pregnant causes mixtConfus’dly, and which… Read more Question 11/10: Cosmology of Miltons Bible Part 2
Question 11/8: Cosmology of Miltons Bible Part 1
The quote below made me question a lot about the cosmology of Miltions work. All of his descriptions quote old gods of older religions but there is something about the continued referenses of specificly the more greek aspects in both the fallen angel descriptions and in the world building as a whole. It raises the… Read more Question 11/8: Cosmology of Miltons Bible Part 1
Satan’s Heaven (Reflection for 11/8)
Today’s reflection was prompted by a classmates article titled Milton Book 1 Question by alliegillis. In it, alliegillis talks about how Satan is going to make his own Heaven in Hell. “He goes on to say how the mind can make these up and you can have Heaven in Hell or Hell in Heaven… I… Read more Satan’s Heaven (Reflection for 11/8)
Total Cliff-hanger(Daily Question for 11/8)
Book 1 of Paradise Lost was an interesting albeit struggling book to read (thank you SparkNotes). There were a lot of well written elements of storytelling mixed with real life biblical elements. Just like the bible, Milton’s story starts off by talking about Adam and Eve and how Satan tricked them into eating the forbidden… Read more Total Cliff-hanger(Daily Question for 11/8)
Pandemonium, Milton Collab book 1
Milton’s “The Passion”
This poem is about the life of Jesus. Thank goodness I was raised Catholic, or I don’t know if I would have picked up on all of these metaphors! (Sense the sarcasm here.) The first stanza talks about Jesus’ birth, the nativity scene that’s commonly seen around Christmastime. “And joyous news of heav’nly Infants birth” (3) gives it… Read more Milton’s “The Passion”
Milton Book 1 Daily Question—11/08
We know that this is a book about God and the Devil and religion and all that lies in between. But if that where the case, why does it seem like the narrator is calling upon the supernatural? It seems like they are talking about witchcraft which I thought went against religion. “O Myriads of… Read more Milton Book 1 Daily Question—11/08
Milton and the Environment
“As whom the Fables name of monstrous size, Titanian, or Earth-born, that warr’d on Jove, Briareos or Typhon, whom the Den By ancient Tarsus held, or that Sea-beast Leviathan, which God of all his works Created hugest that swim th’ Ocean stream:” Milton, 197-202 One of the things that stuck out the most about this… Read more Milton and the Environment